odds and ends

Questions about odds and ends

What does odds and ends mean?

odds and ends means "a motley assortment of things".

What is another word for odds and ends?

Close synonyms include oddments, melange, farrago, ragbag, mishmash. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is odds and ends a common word?

odds and ends is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.